discreteness

Noun

Meaning

the state of being several and distinct

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

individuality distinctiveness distinctness separateness otherness particularity severalty seity

Hypernyms

separation

Related terms

discretion

Anagrams

discreetness

Examples

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer. Doron Zeilberger

It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things.” It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding. Richard Weaver

Dirac supplied a systematic procedure for transferring the characteristic quantum phenomenon of discreteness of physical quantities from the quantum-mechanical treatment of particles to a corresponding treatment of fields. Source: Internet

Its second idea is that the quantum discreteness that determines the particle-like behavior of other field theories (for instance, the photons of the electromagnetic field) also affects the structure of space. Source: Internet

However, in a classical harmonic oscillator such as a lead ball attached to the end of a spring, we do not perceive any discreteness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

discrete-time discrete-time Markov chain discretely discretion discretion is the greater part of valour discretional